[ Socialism is primarily the reason why people don’t have kids. They do not perceive them as being able to afford them with the taxes they pay. ]
The well meaning fools think they should have less kids so they secure their “gubermint benefits” for old age. Meanwhile the antagonistic aliens in the country take full advantage of the welfare state to squirt out kids because they are getting those same benefits and could give a crap about the fools who are paying into the system.
They are using people’s own “kindness/dependence” against them.
The issue is that in the short term, kids are a bad investment. I have been told that by many, many financial advisers. If you make “to much”, you not only have to pay for your kids, but everyone else’s kids. Which is why you see so many two bedroom developments going up.
In the long term, you need them to keep the State going. Kind of like eating the seed corn. At some point, the State collapses and you end up with a lot of starving people with no idea how to survive if someone doesn’t give them food.